Open source AI
Open-source AI is where the real innovation happens. From Llama and Mistral to Whisper and Stable Diffusion, these are the models and tools anyone can download, fine-tune, and deploy without vendor lock-in. We track the most impactful open-source AI projects so builders and researchers can stay ahead of the curve.
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An open source machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, primarily developed by Facebook's AI Research lab.
A free software machine learning library for the Python programming language. It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms including support vector machines, random forests, gradient boosting, k-means and DBSCAN, and is de...
A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. It supports teaching agents everything from walking to playing games like Pong or Pinball.
A state-of-the-art machine learning library for natural language processing (NLP). It provides thousands of pretrained models to perform tasks on texts such as classification, information extraction, question answering, summarization, translation, te...
A deep learning framework suited for flexible research prototyping and production. It's supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS). MXNet is designed to be efficient, scalable, and flexible, allowing developers to easily construct and train neural networ...
Sample code and documentation with examples for Google Cloud Platform's Generative AI with Gemini on Vertex AI.
An open-source AI chatbot framework designed for building custom conversational AI models with state-of-the-art natural language processing capabilities.
An open source AI Chatbot which can be deployed to Vercel.
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source, self-hosted personal agent with a learning loop, SQLite-backed memory, MCP extensibility, and gateways for Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI.
Langflow is an open-source visual builder for AI agents, RAG pipelines, and MCP-backed workflows with APIs for embedding flows into your own apps.
n8n is an open workflow automation platform with AI nodes, community templates, and self-hosting options for building agent-like automations across APIs and data sources.
Fooocus is an open-source generative AI program that simplifies image generation by providing default settings and prompts, making it user-friendly for those new to AI art creation.
Chatbox is an open-source chat application that supports multiple AI models and integrations, designed for a seamless conversational experience.
Lobe Chat is an open-source AI chat framework featuring a modern design. It supports multiple AI providers, including OpenAI, Claude 3, Gemini, Ollama, Azure, and DeepSeek. The framework offers a knowledge base with file upload and management capabil...
Hugging Face connects thousands of models to managed inference endpoints and router APIs so teams can serve transformers, diffusion, and embeddings with provider choice behind one integration surface.
LettaBot is an Apache-licensed personal assistant from the Letta team that unifies Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and Signal with persistent memory and local tool execution powered by the Letta stack.
Chibi is a MIT-licensed, self-hosted Telegram bot that orchestrates multiple LLM providers, MCP tools, async jobs, and sub-agents from a single mobile-first interface.
Open WebUI is a self-hostable web interface for local and remote LLMs with pipelines, tool use, RAG, and community extensions that many teams treat as a private ChatGPT plus agent playground.
LibreChat is an open-source, self-hosted ChatGPT-style UI with plugins, agents, multimodal chat, and enterprise-friendly authentication patterns.
AnythingLLM by Mintplex Labs is a self-hosted all-in-one desktop and Docker app for RAG, agents, and multi-workspace document chat over your own data.
Khoj is an open-source personal AI copilot for your notes, docs, and second brain with self-hosting, research agents, and assistant integrations.
Roo Code is a community-driven VS Code extension fork in the Cline lineage focused on autonomous coding, deep tool use, and rapid iteration from the open agent ecosystem.
Aider is a terminal-based AI pair programmer that edits git repositories with multi-file changes, tests, and commit-oriented workflows for agentic coding in the CLI.
Eliza is an open source conversational AI agent for Twitter, Discord, and other platforms through integrations.
phidata is a framework and interface for building AI agents with 'memory, knowledge, tools and reasoning'.
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